Ms.

Wagoner’s
Peek at the Week
January 2011

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

10 11 12 13 14
Day 1 - Music Day 2 – Spanish Day 3 – Gym Day 1 – Music Day 2 - Spanish

Agents of Change Agents of Change Agents of Change JERSEY DAY

FINAL DRAFT DUE! Presentations Presentations
12:45-1:45pm 12:45-1:45pm First Grade Buddies

Watercolor Art Lesson Book Browse Field Trip to SPMS

with Kyle from 9:45-11:00am
WBL Center for the Arts
Star of the Week: Tessa Spelling Test
Friday Activity Day

PATROL UPDATE IMPORTANT DATES: MARK YOUR CALENDARS!

The Orange team will continue duties
until January 14. Look for the schedule
posted on the class web site. Check out
some photos from our bowling reward
trip on our class website.
Keep up the great work patrols!
 1/14: Field Trip to Sunrise Park On Thursday, January 20th, Sunrise
(Band and choir) Park Middle School is hosting a 5th
 1/14: Jersey Day Grade Parent Information Night. This
 1/17: NO SCHOOL will start at 7:00pm. This will be
 1/20: SPMS 5th Grade Info. Night especially helpful for current WBL 5th
7:00pm grade families as students will be
 1/21: MAP Testing (Reading) registering for classes sometime this
 1/28: NO SCHOOL month.

CLASS WEBSITE:
We have set up a website for all the 5th grade classes this year. Please check it out!
http://www.fifthgradeteam.weebly.com
 ROOM 114 – CLASS NEWS
WHAT HAVE WE BEEN UP TO?
This week in math we cruised through
many lessons on fractions. Students learned MUSIC
about mixed numbers and improper fractions. Students are learning and practicing with
Students should be able to go back and forth recorders in music. Please make sure
between those two forms. We solved addition your child is bringing his or her recorder
and subtraction problems involving mixed to school.
numbers and also learned how to find equivalent
fractions. Students were also introduced to the
concept of simplifying, or reducing fractions.
Next week we will tackle adding and subtracting
fractions with unlike denominators!
In our current IB planner, students are
focusing their inquiry on Agents of Change. The Next Student Council Spirit Day:
central idea of this planner is that individuals Friday, January 14
have made contributions through language, JERSEY DAY
science, and the arts. This week students worked Wear your favorite team/sports jersey!!
hard on finishing and editing rough drafts. Lily sharing her poetry with her buddy
Several students were able to finish typing their
final drafts in class. Final drafts are due on
Monday. Students will be giving their
presentations on Tuesday and Wednesday. We
also spent some time this week watching sample
presentations from previous years.
In literacy, students read a Scholastic
News magazine that highlighted important
events of 2010. We also talked about verbs in
language arts. We focused on reviewing the
different tenses of verbs. Our spelling list this
week focused on plural forms of words.
We also shared our poetry books and
CONTACT INFORMATION:
practiced reading strategies with our first
grade buddies. Next week, we will have a Sarah Wagoner
watercolor art lesson from Kyle (WBL Center Making marshmallow snowmen before winter break
for the Arts) and also visit Sunrise Park to learn
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about music options for 6th grade. Have a great (651) 407-7600 x1610
weekend!  sjwago@wbl.whitebear.k12.mn.us